Media Advisories

On Monday, June 27, the day before the first-ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Margaret Stock, a former professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will be holding a press conference call to endorse the DREAM...

Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, and Deputy Director José Rico will discuss the Obama administration's strategies to increase Latino students' access to a quality education on Friday, June 24 in San...

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, Tony Miller, will address education experts, school officials and philanthropic leaders during the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ symposium, “Philanthropy and Public Education,” at noon on Friday, June 24. The event will be held at the American Academy...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will address hundreds of educators and school officials during his keynote address at the National Forum’s Annual Schools to Watch Conference at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday, June 23. The conference will be held at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington...

Carl Harris, deputy assistant secretary for policy and state technical assistance for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, will discuss the Department’s work to ensure that every student is provided with a high quality education at the North...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will give remarks, via live uplink, at the National Charter School Conference in Atlanta. He will discuss the important role of charter schools in education reform at 9:05 a.m. Wednesday, June 22. Nia Phillips, chief of staff in the Office of Innovation...

Juan Sepúlveda, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, and Deputy Director Jose Rico will discuss the Obama administration's strategies to increase Latino students' access to a quality education on Friday, June 24 in San Antonio.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, joined by U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, will keynote the National Conference of Black Mayors Legislative Policy Summit at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 22, at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C.

Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement, will discuss the need for the learning sciences to play a more substantial role in the development of learning products and the need for both a new infrastructure for learning and learning technology at the...

High school seniors from across the nation will be honored for their outstanding accomplishments in academics and the arts in Washington, D.C., June 18-21. Highlights of the activities on Monday include a Medallion Ceremony with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at 3:30 p.m.